ARCADIA, Calif. – Covfefe emerged from her victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint in good shape and was scheduled to be back in her stall at Churchill Downs in Kentucky sometime around noon Eastern following an equine charter flight early Sunday, according to Brad Cox, who trains the 3-year-old filly for LNJ Foxwoods.

“She came out of it great,” Cox said early Sunday. “We loaded her this morning at 2 a.m. (Pacific). She’s on her way home.”

ARCADIA, Calif. - An outstanding weekend of racing came to a tragic end early Saturday evening at Santa Anita when Mongolian Groom suffered a catastrophic injury to his left hind leg during the running of the Breeders’ Cup Classic and was subsequently euthanized.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Though he was near the top of the national leaderboard in both wins and purse money won for the year, jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. – the reigning Eclipse Award winning jockey – felt his business had slowed down this fall.

At the Belmont Park fall meet – one that he led all riders in wins for five consecutive years – Ortiz won just 20 races, ninth in the standings. While his upper tier business was solid, his day-to-day business was not.

Total wagering on the 14 Breeders’ Cup races held on Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., set a record for the fourth year in a row, increasing nearly 12 percent over the total amount bet last year on a 14-race card at Churchill Downs in Louisville, according to charts of the races.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Here are the available mutuel payoffs that ended with the Breeders’ Cup Classic, the 12th and last race Saturday at Santa Anita:

1st: VINO ROSSO (No. 10), $11.20, $5.80, $4.00 ($2 payoffs)
2nd: McKINZIE (8), $4.80, $3.60
3rd: HIGHER POWER (7), $6.00
4th: ELATE (6)
5th: MATH WIZARD (1)

$2 exacta (10-8): $47.60

$1 trifecta (10-8-7): $197.00

$.10 superfecta (10-8-7-6): $121.30

$.50 super high five jackpot (mandatory payout) (10-8-7-6-1), $7,181.40

$1 Daily Double (R11-12) (9-10), $12.80

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bolo was scratched from the Breeders’ Cup Mile about 10:30 a.m. Pacific on Saturday morning because of an illness, trainer Carla Gaines said.

Gaines, via text message, said bloodwork done on Bolo indicated the horse had some sort of infection. Gaines said Bolo “had mucus and coughing” and that the decision to scratch was difficult but that Bolo’s camp was “doing what is best for the horse.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Structor came out of his Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf win on Friday in good physical condition and will ship from California to Florida to begin gearing up for a 3-year-old campaign expected to include a move from turf to dirt.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Storm the Court, the upset winner of Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita, will be freshened up and pointed to a 3-year-old campaign that his connections hope ultimately gets him to the Kentucky Derby in May.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Four Wheel Drive, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint on Friday at Santa Anita, will be pointed to the Group 1 Commonwealth at Royal Ascot in June, trainer Wesley Ward said early Saturday.

Four Wheel Drive already was back in his stall at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., after an overnight flight.

“He and the two fillies are all back home,” said Ward, referring to Kimari, who was fourth, and Cambria, who was ninth. “They left on an airplane at 1 a.m.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Suedois was scratched from the Breeders’ Cup Mile on Saturday morning because of a foot problem. Trainer David O’Meara said Suedois had developed a minor infection in his hoof that would prevent him from competing.

“There’s nothing much to it at all,” O’Meara said. “If the race had been tomorrow, he’d have been fine. It was just a question of timing.”